MNB Chapter 16 Review Practice Questions 2024.

MNB Chapter 16 Review Practice Questions 2024. The nurse is assessing a woman with Class III heart disease who is in for a prenatal visit. What would be the first recognizable sign that this client is in heart failure? Audible wheezes Persistent rales in the bases of the lungs Elevated blood pressure Low blood pressure - ANSWER Persistent rales in the bases of the lungs Explanation: The earliest warning sign of cardiac decompensation is persistent rales in the bases of the lungs. A woman who has sickle cell anemia asks the nurse if her infant will develop sickle cell disease. The nurse would base the answer on which information? Sickle cell anemia is recessively inherited. Sickle cell anemia has more than one polygenic inheritance pattern. Sickle cell anemia is dominantly inherited. Sickle cell anemia is not inherited; it occurs following a malaria infection. - ANSWER Sickle cell anemia is recessively inherited Explanation: Sickle cell anemia is an autosomal recessive disease requiring that the person have two genes for the disease, one from each parent. If one parent has the disease and the other is free of the disease and trait, the chance of the child inheriting the disease is zero. If the woman has the disease and her partner has the trait, there is a 50% chance that the child will be born with the disease. If both parents have the disease, then all of their children also will have the disease.